Corporate reporting on the Internet: Audit issues and content analysis of practices

Managerial Auditing Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 412-439

  Fisher, Richard ^a   Oyelere, Peter ^b   Laswad, Fawzi ^c  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Auditing management; Content analysis; Financial reporting; Internet; New Zealand; Worldwide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993027502     PISSN: 02686902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02686900410524418     Document Type: Review

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